Aliyu, Yahaya Bello’s nephew in EFCC’s net over N10 billion fraud

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Aliyu Bello, Governor Yahaya Bello’s nephew, and Dauda Sulaiman is in detention by Justice James Kolawole Omotosho of the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court. He is accused of fraudulent withdrawal of N10 billion from Kogi’s treasury; the EFCC disclosed this on Thursday in a statement. 

Mr. Bello was arraigned alongside Abdulsalami Hudu, the Kogi Government House cashier.

“They were remanded upon arraignment alongside one Abdulsalami Hudu, Cahier of Kogi State House Administration (now at large) on a 10-count charge of misappropriation and money laundering,” said a statement by the EFCC.

According to the anti-corruption agency, “Bello and Sulaiman are accused of fraudulently withdrawing a sum of N10,270,556,800 from the Kogi State treasury, which they delivered to a bureau de change operator, Rabiu Tafada, in Abuja to keep or change to foreign currencies for personal gains.”

However, on Thursday, Kogi’s information commissioner Kingsley Fanwo accused EFCC of “desperation to crucify Kogi state at all costs.”

Mr. Fanwo stated, “The chairman of the EFCC, Abdulrasheed Bawa, has shown a desperate penchant for satisfying his sponsors who are bent on disparaging the good image of the Government and people of Kogi State for political gains.”

Source: gazettengr.com

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